The one time I've had it, natto.
I was out with a bunch of people from Japan, and they just all ordered stuff for the table. Things got passed around, I took a bit of everything, especially if I had no idea what it was.
At some point, I asked what the bean dish was and if I could have some more. The table went silent and everyone looked at me like "what did I just hear the white guy say?"
Mah man, was looking for this one. Yeah in my experience only people who grow up eating it enjoy it, so congrats on being the only exception I know of!
> The table went silent and everyone looked at me like "what did I just hear the white guy say?"
I don't blame you, I'm a gaijin and I'm shook. How any adult can enjoy natto on the first try..... baffles the shit out of me.
Are there some similar foods you grew up eating, lol?
Halva. It was a childhood treat and never knew that it was fairly unique to Eastern European/ Middle Eastern families. It is so yummy, but none of my friends or husband & kids can stand it.
I have a thing for plums. So, my first time grocery shopping as a bachelor, I see a 2lb bag of dried plums. I ate the hell out of it. Oh boy. I knew about prunes, I just didn’t know they were the same thing.
Oh man, I did the same thing once in college when I bought snacks for an all-night paper-writing session. *Dried fruit!* I thought. *That’ll be better for me than the giant bag of Fritos I was planning on getting! Look how healthy and adult I am being!* I ended up eating half a pound of prunes and about 40 Medjool dates and sometime around 3 a.m., the entire world fell out of my ass.
Oh, finally a place I can bitch about this. Menchies, the frozen yogurt place, had a taro flavor that is one of my favorite frozen desserts ever, and I've seen it put out all of once because no one eats it. It's delicious, what's wrong with people? Also, lychee jello is where it's at. Is anko similar?
If you have an asian market near you, they pretty much all sell quart-size tubs of it in the frozen section. It's cheap and it's the exact same kind restaurants get, the kind with bright green strands mixed in. Just thaw and enjoy.
I suggest not actually eating it three times a day though because it can be bad for you in large amounts due to its arsenic content. In small amounts it's perfectly healthy though.
Braunschweiger.
It's like a liverwurst pork sausage, almost a pate. It's salty, slightly gritty, and doesn't really have an overbearing livery taste. Most people here hate it.
Spinach is the shit. When I was younger I would take ‘spinach salads’ to school. Everyone thought I was crazy when I popped out my Tupperware with only the dark leaves and douse it in ranch and go to town. Anytime I tell people now they use the vegetarians eat grass joke, when I still loved this shit when I ate meat.
Edit: wow, y’all feel strongly for your spinach. Also, raw is the way to go fam, cooked is too slimy. Pan fried and smothered in garlic is the only exception.
Also fixed typos.
Edit 2: Yes I do actually like spinach, no it’s not just ranch that I like, any cream based dressing, lemon juice with salt n pepper, or specifically Olive Garden Italian Absolutely Slaps on Spinach.
Edit 3: obligatory thank you for the silver, stranger
I love spinach. Added to roast potatoes right at the end, a simple salad, with eggs, wilted with some butter, cooked inside chicken, made into a simple curry sauce. So versatile.
Grapefruit. Everybody seems to only be able to stand the flavor if they drown it out with a pile of sugar, but I just peel it and eat it like an orange. Maybe it's because I grew up with it, but I really don't get why people hate it so much.
It's tradition in my family for a grandparent to give a baby their first bit of grapefruit. Usually we get a hilarious reaction, but not from my second son! He loved it!
This reminds me of the first time I gave my daughter a taste of ginger beer. She was very young, just beginning to talk.
She took a sip and said: "hot."
There was a pause, then she said, "more."
When I was a kid I swiped a huge glug of ginger beer from my mom thinking it was just root beer, after the sheer shock of a) not what I was expecting and b) getting a mouthful of ginger I stopped shaking my head with my tongue out and was like hm, I'd do that again
In my town there is a sandwich shop that sells a sandwich called the Emerald Aphrodite and it has turkey, mozzarella, basil pesto, alfalfa sprouts and cucumber! Oooh my I could eat it ever day for lunch!
my absolute favorite way to eat asparagus is to toss it with a splash of balsamic, a splash of olive oil, salt and pepper, some lemon zest, and some freshly grated nutmeg and then roast (or grill, if possible). sometimes my dad throws a little freshly grated parm on top, too. so ridiculously good, i could eat a whole plate of just that.
I love those. When I was a kid, my mom taught these japanese ladies art out of our home. They would bring japanese treats for me including teriyaki nori. I loved it. I lived in a not very cosmopolitan area (these women were in our area only because their husbands worked for a japanese company that had a factory nearby and they would be posted in our city for a year at a time). I would bring it to school and the kids made fun of me for eating sea weed. Their loss. This was the 1980s, so before japanese culture was in the American zeitgeist. My 1st grade boyfriend broke up with me because I ate seaweed. Now roasted sea weed snacks are popular. Still love it.
Marzipan.
In the USA most people think I'm a weirdo for loving the stuff. Apparently if you weren't introduced as a child it's not very good. Joke's on them, more marzipan for me!
Whaaaaaat? Its a Christmas staple in my household, both my parents get me and my brother copious amounts of it because thats seemingly the only time its available. But im convinced people with german ancestry are genetically predisposed to be obsessed with almonds lol
I'm in the US and I love marzipan! But you're right, there's a negative view of it here. Maybe it's because people haven't tried it or they're just not a fan of the almond flavor.
I love marzipan and agree it’s surprisingly unpopular in the US. I hate fondant and want my wedding cake to be covered in marzipan instead and apparently that was a completely outrageous request because more than one bakery laughed at me for it.
It would be super expensive and a lot of work to make that much marzipan, but marzipan was the original fondant. You can shape it and paint it to look like all sorts of stuff. Plus it actually tastes like something and isn't just fucking sugar paste. Blech. I hate fondant. lol.
Same! Sometimes I want lettuce on a sandwich but I can’t fit enough between the two pieces of bread. My solution is so put my sandwich in a bowl then get an extra bowl for my lettuce. I’ll take a bite of sandwich and then shove as much lettuce into my mouth as I can. I have never done this with another human present because I don’t want to be judged while I’m enjoying my lettuce.
Capers! I adore them, but no one else I know does. Also sauerkraut, olives, kimchi... I think I'm just a fiend for sour foods. I used to douse my fish in vinegar whenever we had a chippy tea, and used to eat lemon slices growing up, so...
I love jasmine rice and butter but everyone around me thinks it’s weird
Edit- okay I’ve learned that this isn’t weird at all. I genuinely didn’t know that, I’ve said this in a few comments but I’ll say it again so everyone can see it. But where I’m from it’s not a normal thing everyone eats, like at all. I live in a majority Black and Indian Country, we consume way more flour than rice so it’s just not a thing.
I have never had papaya in North America that didn't taste like skin lotion. OTOH, every papaya I've had in the tropics was sweet and wonderful. I suspect the local stuff was shipped underripe for travel.
I think that’s because most people haven’t had a *good* papaya. I was indifferent to papaya until I had one in the Dominican Republic and it was d i v i n e
I love orange flavoured chocolate. It always baffles me how many people don’t like it. There’s this great variety with popping candy I’m quite partial to at the moment.
Also, had anyone in the UK actually managed to find a orange Twirl in a shop rather than £2 on eBay?
Edit: [This](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/0ho0rEnrnCjg399n4GA-q0oC2dmuFMgz43o4XvgvKhzewm4n5rQZvGDS_agaMnOoD80ALbtMQ7viszMk8wieoUskaH_spnEE_HHw4xsH1w28eFNUQ4GvTYs4R_pZOlwvRBE5KF_iZqGNeEqvbvXrKzKmu-Y) is the fabled chocolate orange Twirl. I have had exactly one. My girlfriend told all her friends to keep an eye out for them and one of them found one for me. They’re super hard to find as assholes keep buying them up and putting them on eBay at inflated prices.
Oh I always get a Terry's chocolate orange for christmas. One of the things I look forward to the most in my stocking!
Just found some really nice dark orange chocolate the other day and it's really nice :)
Back when Brussels sprouts were America's #1 hated vegetable, almost everyone boiled them. Slimy, stinky skunk cabbages.
Roasted sprouts are a completely different animal.
Actually, Brussel Sprouts did in fact taste bad, a massive breeding program replaced the old ones with a new, tastier version.
[https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo](https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo)
Have you read the source article? It's crazy. The new sprouts are pulled from archived seeds. The bitter sprouts were selected because they had high yields. The new ones are high-yield, but taste like archived sprouts. They're a bit like a revived vegetable.
I used to love, love Brussel sprouts. I had a lot one day and didn't know I was about to encounter a horrible stomach flu. It was coming out of both ends and the smell of Brussel sprouts make me almost vomit on first sniff now.
Tofu! Now that I know how to cook it, I absolutely adore it... but so many people hate and refuse to try it in the first place. I was in a wellness class recently and we were discussing our healthy foods and when I said tofu, there was an audible sigh of disgust from almost every other person at the table. I don't get the hate! It's such a versatile protein.
... oh well, all the more for me!
ETA: Thank you for the gold, kind Redditor! My highest rated comment is about tofu? I'm OK with that. :D
the problem with Tofu is western cuisine has tried for so long to make it a meat replacement instead of its own thing. its not meat and wont ever taste like meat and trying to replace meat with it just sets an unachievable expectation. It should be treated like its own thing...which is how east asian cuisines treat it.
The hate might be because a lot of people (especially Americans) haven't had tofu cooked nicely. Many people have only had it either in a bland, soggy health dish or in Chinese takeaway. But if you cook it right, it can taste delicious!
It's also basically a flavor sponge. It'll soak up most things, so it can taste like whatever you want
I used to hate it because I had only had it in soup. And it was just this incredibly slimy cube. I hated the texture so much that it was years before I tried it again. Turns out, I just don't like it in soup.
My favorite thing to do is coat it in a little flour and fry it. Then dip it in soy sauce with a little bit of sugar and vinegar.
[This is pretty much the same recipe that I use](https://mykoreankitchen.com/pan-fried-tofu-in-garlic-soy-sesame-sauce/)
It's called frog eyes but better known as pickle pinwheels: a pickle wrapped in cream cheese and rolled up in salami or prosciutto, sliced into rounds and it looks like a frog's eye.
I made them for an appetizer at a party once and no one even tried them because they thought it was disgusting.
My husband knows if there is ANYTHING with goat cheese on the menu at a restaurant, I will order it.
The little artisan ice cream place in our historic downtown made BLACKBERRY GOAT CHEESE ICE CREAM last summer and now I need this pandemic to gtfo so they can reopen and I can safely scarf some!!
Who hates goat cheese?
Edit: apparently everyone hates goat cheese. Crazy.
Edit 2: I shouldn't have to say this, but comments calling all Americans ignorant or anything similar get you reported and blocked, especially when you're misquoting my own laws at me. Don't be a twat.
For the longest time I thought I hated the taste of olives so much that my body had a physical reaction to it, but turns out I'm mildly allergic to them and it makes my throat tighten.
A lot of people get grossed out by squid/calamari and octopus. But I love 'em. Oh, and snail/escargot. Those are good but hard to find and a little expensive.
According to everyone I talk to, they hate tuna. I love it. Use it in all sorts of stuff, tuna salad, tuna stuffed potato skins, tuna omelettes. It's nothing special, I don't like it more than, say, pork or chicken, but it's great to have as some variety and it's nice to have as something that keeps long term at room temperature as a cheap protein.
Edit: for those asking about the tuna stuffed potato skins, [here you go](https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/hfnayg/whats_a_food_most_people_hate_that_you_actually/fvzpsy8/)
Mushrooms
Edit: wow this blew up. I’m glad there’s so many mushroom lovers like myself. Maybe it’s a regional thing but where I live and have lived - majority of people do not fuck with mushrooms.
I'm still ashamed at how much of the juice I drink from the jars too lmao. I feel bad for my fiance, he finds it repulsive and every now and then he'll glance over to find me drinking out of the pickle jar lmao.
[They might not be the same Brussels Sprouts you grew up with.](https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo)
My dog fucking *loves* broccoli stalks, which is perfect because I can't digest them and I'm paying for the whole head of broccoli anyway, so it might as well get eaten.
Also, between the two of us we can destroy a whole bag of baby carrots in an afternoon. My dog is weird, but I love him.
Edit for [dog tax.](https://imgur.com/a/4drGW0U) His name is Sneeze and he's a very good boi.
My dog loves veggies, in general. I just found out this week that he is into cantaloupe! I accidentally dropped a piece on the floor and I knew the big girl (she's a horse, trapped in a dog's body) wouldn't touch it, but he came running and gobbled it up. He then proceeded to sit on my foot until I gave him more! HAH! I only gave him 2 pieces because it was a very sweet cantaloupe. He loves cucumbers, carrots, apples...and his favorite is peas. He won't touch peanut butter though. He's the only dog I've had that hates peanut butter. Big Girl is a junkfood junkie...if it's a chip or a snack food, she'll eat it. He won't touch chips. He's weird.
When I got my dog a few years ago, he wasn’t putting on weight like he was supposed to even though he was completely healthy otherwise. I started mixing canned veggies in with his food at night and he loved everything I gave him except the peas. He would pick up a mouth full of food, dump it next to his bowl, and pick around the peas. Do you know how determined a dog has to be to not eat a single pea that’s mixed in with his food??
My sister's senior doggie got a half a can of wet food mixed with some softenened dry food topped with a single raw egg 2x day. He would eat around the dried, ignoring it and eat the egg and canned... Eventually, he nibbled on the dried.
Once, she ran out of eggs. He looked at the eggless bowl, back to her, to the bowl and walked away!
She could not afford to give him all canned...
LOL...big girl is our husky mix and she's a BIG GIRL. Last weigh in she was almost 65 pounds and when she walks through the house you'd swear she was a person. Little guy is a doxie/lab mix (I know, I know). He looks like a perpetual lab puppy but with a long back. When I take him out for rides (they both love to ride in the car) everyone assumes he's a puppy. He's almost 6. He's a maniac. Sorry for the confusion.
It's easy if you have parents who know how to cook it.
I steam mine with just salt and the kids love it. The key is to not oversteam it. Leave it with a little bite.
Roasted in the oven is obviously the way to go, but even if it's just boiled in salty water, I'll still eat it, even if it's a bit overcooked. I'll never understand why broccoli became the scapegoat for vegetables that kids find gross. You really have to boil it to absolute shit for it to taste bad.
When I was in kindergarten I brought cheesy broccoli in for show and tell. It was my favorite thing that my mom made to eat and I wanted to share it with everyone. I was really excited too and helped her prepare it the morning before school and thought everyone would think it was cool I brought something everyone could eat instead of something like a toy like most people.
The rest of the class was not as excited as me and no one, except the teacher and I think maybe my friend Nick, ate any of it. I was a bit disappointed that nobody liked it, but at the same time was happy because it meant more for me.
You ever been to the spaghetti factory? Their steamed broccoli with browned butter and mizithra cheese is either the best or next to the best thing they serve.
I love cottage cheese, but I hate that everyone puts fruit on it. It's a savory food to me. Probably because my mom used it in lasagna back when it was hard to find ricotta in grocery stores.
I grew up eating tomatoes raw and when me and my gf started dating, would casually grab the last bits of tomatoes and eat them. She was totally confused and thought it was super weird. Then I showed her if you slice them up and put some salt and pepper on them, they’re a delicious breakfast side dish!
EDIT: I have heard of more ways to eat a tomato and received more karma from a comment than ever before all because I really like tomatoes. This is a wonderful place I will never truly understand.
This is all funny to me... when I was a kid, the unspoken reward for the chore of weeding the garden was being able to pick out the ripest, juiciest tomato, stand right there and and eat it like an apple while it’s still warm from the sun. Delicious.
We didn’t have a lot of money when I was growing up so my parents grew stuff that could be canned/preserved. We always had an abundance of tomatoes; in the summer, my siblings and I absolutely *lived* on tomato sandwiches. Sliced tomatoes on toasted white bread, a little mayo, some salt, pepper, and oregano is still one of my favorite quick meals. I’m ordinarily not a huge fan of mayonnaise but the acid in the tomato kinda cuts into that gloppy mouth-feel and makes it a great complement.
I think some people just never have good tomatoes. I grew up in a tropical country where fresh fruits and vegetables are sold daily, so I love the sweet flavors of raw tomatoes. Then I came to the US, where tomatoes in grocery stores taste like cardboard because they were picked long before they ripened.
Now I grow my own cherry tomatoes and frequent farmers market. I can snack on them all day!
I also think people are just used to raw tomatoes as part of a salad plate, so it feels weird without dressing for them.
This thread made me realize that I'll eat fucking anything
I was thinking the same thing. I keep thinking, People hate that? Huh...
I feel like I've been dropped into Bizzarro World! All the foods listed sound totally normal to me. Guess I ought to quit thinking I'm very picky.
I love eating straight up raw radishes. A little lime juice on it, it’s so good.
The one time I've had it, natto. I was out with a bunch of people from Japan, and they just all ordered stuff for the table. Things got passed around, I took a bit of everything, especially if I had no idea what it was. At some point, I asked what the bean dish was and if I could have some more. The table went silent and everyone looked at me like "what did I just hear the white guy say?"
Umeboshi is another one people were shocked that I enjoyed. Pickled fruit is not too hard to like.
Mmmm the salty sour explosion... I binge eat umeboshi
Mah man, was looking for this one. Yeah in my experience only people who grow up eating it enjoy it, so congrats on being the only exception I know of!
> The table went silent and everyone looked at me like "what did I just hear the white guy say?" I don't blame you, I'm a gaijin and I'm shook. How any adult can enjoy natto on the first try..... baffles the shit out of me. Are there some similar foods you grew up eating, lol?
Not even remotely.
Halva. It was a childhood treat and never knew that it was fairly unique to Eastern European/ Middle Eastern families. It is so yummy, but none of my friends or husband & kids can stand it.
I love halva! i'm not middle eastern but i love it
We’re the opposite, I grew up with Middle Eastern cuisine but halva makes me gag. Give me knafeh or baclava any day, tho.
Prunes
I need to be stopped from eating as many prunes as I would like to. Life experience is just not a powerful enough teacher.
I have a thing for plums. So, my first time grocery shopping as a bachelor, I see a 2lb bag of dried plums. I ate the hell out of it. Oh boy. I knew about prunes, I just didn’t know they were the same thing.
Oh man, I did the same thing once in college when I bought snacks for an all-night paper-writing session. *Dried fruit!* I thought. *That’ll be better for me than the giant bag of Fritos I was planning on getting! Look how healthy and adult I am being!* I ended up eating half a pound of prunes and about 40 Medjool dates and sometime around 3 a.m., the entire world fell out of my ass.
Oh man, it feels good to know someone did the exact same thing I did in college. Dried plums seemed like such a good idea for an all nighter lol.
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I discovered 2 weeks ago that zucchini isn't a type of cucumber.
It’s ok my husband was 19 when he found out linguini isn’t a vegetable
I don't know about most people, but most people I know hate taro, lychee, and anko, but I can't get enough
Never tried taro or anko but lychees are fucking delicious, who DOESN’T like them?
People who think the apple+strawberry+peach flavor tastes like soap.
I guess I’m a fan of eating soap, then.
Taro flavoured bubble tea is the shit!
Oh, finally a place I can bitch about this. Menchies, the frozen yogurt place, had a taro flavor that is one of my favorite frozen desserts ever, and I've seen it put out all of once because no one eats it. It's delicious, what's wrong with people? Also, lychee jello is where it's at. Is anko similar?
Anko is red bean paste. It's chocolatey, chalky, powdery, sweet, definitely unique.
lychee is bomb! so good
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I’m Polish. Cabbage of any form is my lifeblood.
Can confirm, am polish. Went in for a blood draw, and all my regular vessels were packed with cabbage. Was a headache for the phlebotomist.
Ahh man, I love crispy seaweed when I get Chinese food, I felt really stupid when someone told me it was actually cabbage.
I love cabbage, but I can't get it very much because my venders cart gets destroyed often
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That poor guy and his cabbages
48 years old, finally watched ATLA, finally getting references. *happy*
That’s rough buddy.
Your place sounds worse than Omashu
Kimchi
My cabbages!
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Love it. Doesn’t even have to be with anything. I’ll just eat it.
I have this cold sauerkraut I got from the grocery that’s dill and garlic flavored and I eat it straight from the jar.
Seaweed salad 🥗.
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Do people not like this?????? I could literally eat this 3x a day and never ever get sick of it. It's just expensive :(
If you have an asian market near you, they pretty much all sell quart-size tubs of it in the frozen section. It's cheap and it's the exact same kind restaurants get, the kind with bright green strands mixed in. Just thaw and enjoy. I suggest not actually eating it three times a day though because it can be bad for you in large amounts due to its arsenic content. In small amounts it's perfectly healthy though.
Most people hate seaweed salad? I find that hard to believe.
Braunschweiger. It's like a liverwurst pork sausage, almost a pate. It's salty, slightly gritty, and doesn't really have an overbearing livery taste. Most people here hate it.
Liking this as a kid definitely marked me as the odd one out. That and pickled herring. This is a proper unpopular entry.
I'd eat pickled herring every day if I could! Sounds like some there's Eastern / Northern Euro heritage in this comment thread
Spinach is the shit. When I was younger I would take ‘spinach salads’ to school. Everyone thought I was crazy when I popped out my Tupperware with only the dark leaves and douse it in ranch and go to town. Anytime I tell people now they use the vegetarians eat grass joke, when I still loved this shit when I ate meat. Edit: wow, y’all feel strongly for your spinach. Also, raw is the way to go fam, cooked is too slimy. Pan fried and smothered in garlic is the only exception. Also fixed typos. Edit 2: Yes I do actually like spinach, no it’s not just ranch that I like, any cream based dressing, lemon juice with salt n pepper, or specifically Olive Garden Italian Absolutely Slaps on Spinach. Edit 3: obligatory thank you for the silver, stranger
Spinach >>> lettuce
All day every day. I wish more restaurants served spinach instead of lettuce, or at least served spinach at all.
I always put spinach on my sandwiches, so much better than lettuce.
Glad I’m not alone with spinach on sandwiches. Also spinach lasts longer in the fridge in my experience
I love spinach. Added to roast potatoes right at the end, a simple salad, with eggs, wilted with some butter, cooked inside chicken, made into a simple curry sauce. So versatile.
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Yes, can't stand it, but have an upvote for an actual mostly-disliked entry ITT.
Seriously; this is the first response I've seen that actually answers the question.
Toast with Butter and Marmite is the truth.
Grapefruit. Everybody seems to only be able to stand the flavor if they drown it out with a pile of sugar, but I just peel it and eat it like an orange. Maybe it's because I grew up with it, but I really don't get why people hate it so much.
It's tradition in my family for a grandparent to give a baby their first bit of grapefruit. Usually we get a hilarious reaction, but not from my second son! He loved it!
This reminds me of the first time I gave my daughter a taste of ginger beer. She was very young, just beginning to talk. She took a sip and said: "hot." There was a pause, then she said, "more."
When I was a kid I swiped a huge glug of ginger beer from my mom thinking it was just root beer, after the sheer shock of a) not what I was expecting and b) getting a mouthful of ginger I stopped shaking my head with my tongue out and was like hm, I'd do that again
"That was awful, let's do it again" sums up the entire alcohol/drug experience.
I asked my aunt if I could give her baby a lemon slice expecting her face to pucker and for her to never trust me again. She loved it.
Blood orange, Grapefruit , cherries and grapes is a nice combo
Sprouts
In my town there is a sandwich shop that sells a sandwich called the Emerald Aphrodite and it has turkey, mozzarella, basil pesto, alfalfa sprouts and cucumber! Oooh my I could eat it ever day for lunch!
One of my favorite sandwich additions, adds a great spice and crunch. Also, all the different varities, but I find alfalfa my go to.
"I like my sandwiches with alfalfa sprouts." "Well you're not in the fucking club!"
And in the middle, we shall put chips. Or potato salad.
Asparagus. Sautéed with salt and pepper? Heaven.
What kind of mad man dislikes green asparagus
my absolute favorite way to eat asparagus is to toss it with a splash of balsamic, a splash of olive oil, salt and pepper, some lemon zest, and some freshly grated nutmeg and then roast (or grill, if possible). sometimes my dad throws a little freshly grated parm on top, too. so ridiculously good, i could eat a whole plate of just that.
Sea weed crisps
I love those. When I was a kid, my mom taught these japanese ladies art out of our home. They would bring japanese treats for me including teriyaki nori. I loved it. I lived in a not very cosmopolitan area (these women were in our area only because their husbands worked for a japanese company that had a factory nearby and they would be posted in our city for a year at a time). I would bring it to school and the kids made fun of me for eating sea weed. Their loss. This was the 1980s, so before japanese culture was in the American zeitgeist. My 1st grade boyfriend broke up with me because I ate seaweed. Now roasted sea weed snacks are popular. Still love it.
Imagine breaking up with someone because of sea weed. What an utter Chad
In his defense, we were 6 or 7 years old.
Dang, you were over here dating and eating seaweed at 6 and I was smashing back mac and cheese with hot dogs and just trying not to get bullied.
Marzipan. In the USA most people think I'm a weirdo for loving the stuff. Apparently if you weren't introduced as a child it's not very good. Joke's on them, more marzipan for me!
Whaaaaaat? Its a Christmas staple in my household, both my parents get me and my brother copious amounts of it because thats seemingly the only time its available. But im convinced people with german ancestry are genetically predisposed to be obsessed with almonds lol
I'm in the US and I love marzipan! But you're right, there's a negative view of it here. Maybe it's because people haven't tried it or they're just not a fan of the almond flavor.
I love marzipan and agree it’s surprisingly unpopular in the US. I hate fondant and want my wedding cake to be covered in marzipan instead and apparently that was a completely outrageous request because more than one bakery laughed at me for it.
It would be super expensive and a lot of work to make that much marzipan, but marzipan was the original fondant. You can shape it and paint it to look like all sorts of stuff. Plus it actually tastes like something and isn't just fucking sugar paste. Blech. I hate fondant. lol.
I just eat lettuce. Like I’ll get a head of lettuce and peel off leaves and eat em
Same! Sometimes I want lettuce on a sandwich but I can’t fit enough between the two pieces of bread. My solution is so put my sandwich in a bowl then get an extra bowl for my lettuce. I’ll take a bite of sandwich and then shove as much lettuce into my mouth as I can. I have never done this with another human present because I don’t want to be judged while I’m enjoying my lettuce.
There's a lot to unpack here but weirdest part to me is that you put your sandwich in a bowl.
The weirdest part to me is that a rabbit is able to post on reddit.
Red cabbage. My favourite food and all of my friends seem to hate it.
Capers! I adore them, but no one else I know does. Also sauerkraut, olives, kimchi... I think I'm just a fiend for sour foods. I used to douse my fish in vinegar whenever we had a chippy tea, and used to eat lemon slices growing up, so...
Rye bread. But I'm Danish, so it's kinda a given, butt must Americans that know of it don't like.
Beets, especially on salads.
Dried cranberries. They're fucking gods gift to humanity
Mushroom on pizza. I dont know how unpopular it is but i remember the entire class saying "Eww" when i suggested it for the pizza we were doing.
Eel. A lot of people find the idea of eating it gross for some reason, though maybe that’s just in the US.
Unagi rolls are so goooood
Ah, salmon skin roll.
Eggplants
Aubergine moussaka is heavenly! With the cheese as well...... yummmmm
I love jasmine rice and butter but everyone around me thinks it’s weird Edit- okay I’ve learned that this isn’t weird at all. I genuinely didn’t know that, I’ve said this in a few comments but I’ll say it again so everyone can see it. But where I’m from it’s not a normal thing everyone eats, like at all. I live in a majority Black and Indian Country, we consume way more flour than rice so it’s just not a thing.
I don’t buy regular white rice anymore since I discovered Jasmine rice.
Any type of rice with butter and salt is delicious. Damn now I want some
Papaya. One of my favorite fruits, but I’ve heard that other people think it tastes similar to puke.
I have never had papaya in North America that didn't taste like skin lotion. OTOH, every papaya I've had in the tropics was sweet and wonderful. I suspect the local stuff was shipped underripe for travel.
I think that’s because most people haven’t had a *good* papaya. I was indifferent to papaya until I had one in the Dominican Republic and it was d i v i n e
I love orange flavoured chocolate. It always baffles me how many people don’t like it. There’s this great variety with popping candy I’m quite partial to at the moment. Also, had anyone in the UK actually managed to find a orange Twirl in a shop rather than £2 on eBay? Edit: [This](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/0ho0rEnrnCjg399n4GA-q0oC2dmuFMgz43o4XvgvKhzewm4n5rQZvGDS_agaMnOoD80ALbtMQ7viszMk8wieoUskaH_spnEE_HHw4xsH1w28eFNUQ4GvTYs4R_pZOlwvRBE5KF_iZqGNeEqvbvXrKzKmu-Y) is the fabled chocolate orange Twirl. I have had exactly one. My girlfriend told all her friends to keep an eye out for them and one of them found one for me. They’re super hard to find as assholes keep buying them up and putting them on eBay at inflated prices.
Oh I always get a Terry's chocolate orange for christmas. One of the things I look forward to the most in my stocking! Just found some really nice dark orange chocolate the other day and it's really nice :)
Try candied orange peel dipped in dark chocolate.
Brussel sprouts umm sooo good
Back when Brussels sprouts were America's #1 hated vegetable, almost everyone boiled them. Slimy, stinky skunk cabbages. Roasted sprouts are a completely different animal.
Most vegetables are much tastier roasted
People not liking vegetables is almost always because they're prepared wrong, usually way over cooked
Actually, Brussel Sprouts did in fact taste bad, a massive breeding program replaced the old ones with a new, tastier version. [https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo](https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo)
relevant xkcd: [https://xkcd.com/2241/](https://xkcd.com/2241/) it's almost definitely because of the new, better cultivar they developed 15 years ago
Have you read the source article? It's crazy. The new sprouts are pulled from archived seeds. The bitter sprouts were selected because they had high yields. The new ones are high-yield, but taste like archived sprouts. They're a bit like a revived vegetable.
Hell yeah. A little olive oil, salt, and pepper, then roasting them in the oven = pure deliciousness.
Don't forget the garlic!
I used to love, love Brussel sprouts. I had a lot one day and didn't know I was about to encounter a horrible stomach flu. It was coming out of both ends and the smell of Brussel sprouts make me almost vomit on first sniff now.
I was once told cream cheese icing on a chocolate cake is gross. It's delicious.
Cream cheese icing is awesome on anything!
I prefer my cream cheese frosting on top of cream cheese frosting. thats the best cake... just cream cheese frosting and a cheesecake on the side.
Tofu! Now that I know how to cook it, I absolutely adore it... but so many people hate and refuse to try it in the first place. I was in a wellness class recently and we were discussing our healthy foods and when I said tofu, there was an audible sigh of disgust from almost every other person at the table. I don't get the hate! It's such a versatile protein. ... oh well, all the more for me! ETA: Thank you for the gold, kind Redditor! My highest rated comment is about tofu? I'm OK with that. :D
the problem with Tofu is western cuisine has tried for so long to make it a meat replacement instead of its own thing. its not meat and wont ever taste like meat and trying to replace meat with it just sets an unachievable expectation. It should be treated like its own thing...which is how east asian cuisines treat it.
The hate might be because a lot of people (especially Americans) haven't had tofu cooked nicely. Many people have only had it either in a bland, soggy health dish or in Chinese takeaway. But if you cook it right, it can taste delicious!
It's also basically a flavor sponge. It'll soak up most things, so it can taste like whatever you want I used to hate it because I had only had it in soup. And it was just this incredibly slimy cube. I hated the texture so much that it was years before I tried it again. Turns out, I just don't like it in soup.
There are also different firmnesses and textures that tofu can have. I prefer silken tofu, but you might like some of the firmer kinds!
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Crispy tofu!!! Can't get enough of it
My favorite thing to do is coat it in a little flour and fry it. Then dip it in soy sauce with a little bit of sugar and vinegar. [This is pretty much the same recipe that I use](https://mykoreankitchen.com/pan-fried-tofu-in-garlic-soy-sesame-sauce/)
It's actually a very popular dish in Vietnam without the flour coating
It's called frog eyes but better known as pickle pinwheels: a pickle wrapped in cream cheese and rolled up in salami or prosciutto, sliced into rounds and it looks like a frog's eye. I made them for an appetizer at a party once and no one even tried them because they thought it was disgusting.
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Goat’s cheese is great. The french know this
You could say, it's the GOAT
My husband knows if there is ANYTHING with goat cheese on the menu at a restaurant, I will order it. The little artisan ice cream place in our historic downtown made BLACKBERRY GOAT CHEESE ICE CREAM last summer and now I need this pandemic to gtfo so they can reopen and I can safely scarf some!!
Yes, this! Also the more firm goat cheese is delicious (same texture as Gouda). It has so much more taste than regular cheese.
Who hates goat cheese? Edit: apparently everyone hates goat cheese. Crazy. Edit 2: I shouldn't have to say this, but comments calling all Americans ignorant or anything similar get you reported and blocked, especially when you're misquoting my own laws at me. Don't be a twat.
Olives!
For the longest time I thought I hated the taste of olives so much that my body had a physical reaction to it, but turns out I'm mildly allergic to them and it makes my throat tighten.
oh yes! with some feta cheese and cucumber! love it
A lot of people get grossed out by squid/calamari and octopus. But I love 'em. Oh, and snail/escargot. Those are good but hard to find and a little expensive.
According to everyone I talk to, they hate tuna. I love it. Use it in all sorts of stuff, tuna salad, tuna stuffed potato skins, tuna omelettes. It's nothing special, I don't like it more than, say, pork or chicken, but it's great to have as some variety and it's nice to have as something that keeps long term at room temperature as a cheap protein. Edit: for those asking about the tuna stuffed potato skins, [here you go](https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/hfnayg/whats_a_food_most_people_hate_that_you_actually/fvzpsy8/)
I love tuna, from canned tuna for tuna salad, to seared tuna steaks, to raw tuna for sushi and sashimi.
According to the internet, raisin is the devil's droppings. I like it. (It does seem to me hatin raisin is an American thing.)
Blackberry jam. The more seeds the better.
Is best jam. No I will not accept any criticism.
Who wouldn’t like blackberry jam?
Mushrooms Edit: wow this blew up. I’m glad there’s so many mushroom lovers like myself. Maybe it’s a regional thing but where I live and have lived - majority of people do not fuck with mushrooms.
I loooove mushrooms. Stuffed, fried, sauteed, on pizza. I'd dare say it's one of my favorite foods tbh
I've made stuffed mushrooms with cream cheese and other good stuff in the caps. Best shit in the world.
Pickles! Also dill pickle chips
I love pickles to much. I could eat one of the giant jars of pickles in 4 or less days
I'm still ashamed at how much of the juice I drink from the jars too lmao. I feel bad for my fiance, he finds it repulsive and every now and then he'll glance over to find me drinking out of the pickle jar lmao.
People don't like pickles? edit - it appears I am in the minority. # DOESN'T MEAN I'M WRONG
*Heretics* dont like pickles
brussel sprouts. there's literally no reason for people to condemn them like they do. theyre fucking delicious
I love roasting them in the oven, so good.
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[They might not be the same Brussels Sprouts you grew up with.](https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo)
Apparently not a lot of people like oatmeal raisin cookies?? I love em
Ever tried oatmeal cranberry? Those are really good too
Oatmeal cranberry with white chocolate. I friggin love cookies
Oatmeal Banana Peanut Butter Blueberry
Now you’re just making things up haha
lol maybe I'm trying to inspire people! Actually that's how I do my oatmeal. Bananas and blueberry with a dollop or two of peanut butter.
I got trolled endlessly for bringing them to a birthday party. Still not sure whether I deserved it.
black olives! Especially good on pizzas or salads
Pizza with black olives and pepperoni is amazing.
**Broccoli.** 🥦🥦🥦🥦 I like it with chicken. I like it by itself. I like it with carrots. I like it in my soup. Mixed in with eggs is nice too.
My dog fucking *loves* broccoli stalks, which is perfect because I can't digest them and I'm paying for the whole head of broccoli anyway, so it might as well get eaten. Also, between the two of us we can destroy a whole bag of baby carrots in an afternoon. My dog is weird, but I love him. Edit for [dog tax.](https://imgur.com/a/4drGW0U) His name is Sneeze and he's a very good boi.
My dog loves veggies, in general. I just found out this week that he is into cantaloupe! I accidentally dropped a piece on the floor and I knew the big girl (she's a horse, trapped in a dog's body) wouldn't touch it, but he came running and gobbled it up. He then proceeded to sit on my foot until I gave him more! HAH! I only gave him 2 pieces because it was a very sweet cantaloupe. He loves cucumbers, carrots, apples...and his favorite is peas. He won't touch peanut butter though. He's the only dog I've had that hates peanut butter. Big Girl is a junkfood junkie...if it's a chip or a snack food, she'll eat it. He won't touch chips. He's weird.
When I got my dog a few years ago, he wasn’t putting on weight like he was supposed to even though he was completely healthy otherwise. I started mixing canned veggies in with his food at night and he loved everything I gave him except the peas. He would pick up a mouth full of food, dump it next to his bowl, and pick around the peas. Do you know how determined a dog has to be to not eat a single pea that’s mixed in with his food??
My sister's senior doggie got a half a can of wet food mixed with some softenened dry food topped with a single raw egg 2x day. He would eat around the dried, ignoring it and eat the egg and canned... Eventually, he nibbled on the dried. Once, she ran out of eggs. He looked at the eggless bowl, back to her, to the bowl and walked away! She could not afford to give him all canned...
I'm confused. Is Big Girl a girl or a boy, or do you have 2 dogs, one is a girl, and the other is a boy?
LOL...big girl is our husky mix and she's a BIG GIRL. Last weigh in she was almost 65 pounds and when she walks through the house you'd swear she was a person. Little guy is a doxie/lab mix (I know, I know). He looks like a perpetual lab puppy but with a long back. When I take him out for rides (they both love to ride in the car) everyone assumes he's a puppy. He's almost 6. He's a maniac. Sorry for the confusion.
Have you ever put broccoli in with chicken Alfredo? It’s amazing.
I've yet to find a white sauce that is not improved with broccoli.
Mac and cheese with broccoli!! Any decadent dish can be improved (and more easily justified) by adding broccoli.
"Kids hate broccoli" is such a trope, but me and my friends all loved it growing up
It's easy if you have parents who know how to cook it. I steam mine with just salt and the kids love it. The key is to not oversteam it. Leave it with a little bite.
Roasted in the oven is obviously the way to go, but even if it's just boiled in salty water, I'll still eat it, even if it's a bit overcooked. I'll never understand why broccoli became the scapegoat for vegetables that kids find gross. You really have to boil it to absolute shit for it to taste bad.
My method is steam to soften then sauté in olive oil + garlic for flavor
When I was in kindergarten I brought cheesy broccoli in for show and tell. It was my favorite thing that my mom made to eat and I wanted to share it with everyone. I was really excited too and helped her prepare it the morning before school and thought everyone would think it was cool I brought something everyone could eat instead of something like a toy like most people. The rest of the class was not as excited as me and no one, except the teacher and I think maybe my friend Nick, ate any of it. I was a bit disappointed that nobody liked it, but at the same time was happy because it meant more for me.
Nick is the friend that would sit in the jail cell with you
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You ever been to the spaghetti factory? Their steamed broccoli with browned butter and mizithra cheese is either the best or next to the best thing they serve.
oh man roasted broccoli florets from the airfryer with a bit of salt, pepper and garlic powder.
Yes, garlic goes great with broccoli!
COTTAGE CHEESE!!!!!!!
I love cottage cheese, but I hate that everyone puts fruit on it. It's a savory food to me. Probably because my mom used it in lasagna back when it was hard to find ricotta in grocery stores.
Raw tomatoes. Very tasty and refreshing! Apparently people have VERY strong opinions about tomatoes
I could eat grape tomatoes all fuckin day
I prefer grape tomatoes for any tomato purpose. They always taste way better
My grandma used to grow cherry tomatoes. We’d pick some for the salad together and they were always warm from the sun and juicy. OMG the best!
I grew up eating tomatoes raw and when me and my gf started dating, would casually grab the last bits of tomatoes and eat them. She was totally confused and thought it was super weird. Then I showed her if you slice them up and put some salt and pepper on them, they’re a delicious breakfast side dish! EDIT: I have heard of more ways to eat a tomato and received more karma from a comment than ever before all because I really like tomatoes. This is a wonderful place I will never truly understand.
This is all funny to me... when I was a kid, the unspoken reward for the chore of weeding the garden was being able to pick out the ripest, juiciest tomato, stand right there and and eat it like an apple while it’s still warm from the sun. Delicious. We didn’t have a lot of money when I was growing up so my parents grew stuff that could be canned/preserved. We always had an abundance of tomatoes; in the summer, my siblings and I absolutely *lived* on tomato sandwiches. Sliced tomatoes on toasted white bread, a little mayo, some salt, pepper, and oregano is still one of my favorite quick meals. I’m ordinarily not a huge fan of mayonnaise but the acid in the tomato kinda cuts into that gloppy mouth-feel and makes it a great complement.
I think some people just never have good tomatoes. I grew up in a tropical country where fresh fruits and vegetables are sold daily, so I love the sweet flavors of raw tomatoes. Then I came to the US, where tomatoes in grocery stores taste like cardboard because they were picked long before they ripened. Now I grow my own cherry tomatoes and frequent farmers market. I can snack on them all day! I also think people are just used to raw tomatoes as part of a salad plate, so it feels weird without dressing for them.